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Photo of authors Ben Lorber and Shane Burley with cover image of their book Safety through Solidarity.

Safety through Solidarity: A Book Launch

Contending Modernities
January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is central to fighting back.

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Turning Away: White Nationalism and a Paraphenomenology of Darkness

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Biko Gray
November 15, 2023January 26, 2024

A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.

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Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Scott Hibbard
August 11, 2022January 26, 2024

It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.

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The Sexual Politics of Ethno-Religious Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
July 21, 2021January 26, 2024

What appears to be an isolated episode in sexual politics is, when placed in historical context, one surgent moment in a long contest over the identity and character of U.S. society.

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Race, Ressentiment, and Nihilism in White Evangelical Christian Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
July 1, 2021January 26, 2024

Race is inextricably interwoven with Christian nationalism in the U.S. And racialized privilege—and various dynamics of racial animus—is an essential driver of the recurring waves of White evangelical Christian ethno-religious nationalism.

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QAnon, Conspiracy, and White Evangelical Apocalypse

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

Ethno-religious nationalism—and the distinctive logic and dynamics of zombie nationalism—forms the connective tissue between much White evangelicalism and QAnon conspiracy ideology.

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Introduction to Zombie Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

The Trump-infused ethno-religious nationalism of White evangelicals is but the most recent upsurge of a political and cultural current that is traceable back at least sixty years, and indeed, much further.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism is Bad for Jews, Israel, and Peace

Atalia Omer
January 21, 2021January 27, 2024

Antisemitism, like other forms of racism and bigotry, should be rejected by appeals to human rights and justice, not through the closure of critical thinking and blind acceptance of official Israeli state policies.

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Analogies and Jewish Movement Spaces

Series: Policing Analogies
Shahar Zaken
October 1, 2020October 1, 2020

When we open ourselves to complexities we are less likely to force our notion of what liberation is onto others.

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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

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